Zooplankton control of climate change impacts on ocean food-webs

浮游动物是海洋食物网中浮游植物（微观植物）与高级消费者（如鱼类、海鸟）之间的关键环节。虽然人们普遍认为，气候驱动的浮游动物群落变化在渔业、海洋鸟类和哺乳动物种群数量下降中发挥了关键作用，但驱动浮游动物对气候变化做出反应的过程仍未得到充分解决。填补这一知识缺口对于理解气候变化对生态系统的影响、可持续资源管理、渔业保护和政策至关重要，也代表了我的长期项目目标。

Zooplankton are the critical link in marine food-webs between phytoplankton (microscopic plants) and higher level consumers (e.g., fish, seabirds). While widely accepted that climate-driven changes in zooplankton communities have played a key role in declines of fisheries and populations of marine birds and mammals, the processes that drive zooplankton response to climate change remain weakly resolved. Filling this knowledge gap is fundamental to: understanding ecosystem impacts of climate change, sustainable resource management, and fisheries conservation and policy, and represents my long-term program goal.